LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil on canvas

Measurements:

8.66 in. (22.00 cm.) (height) by 11.61 in. (29.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed and titled on a piece of the original stretcher affixed to the reverse: Wine and Brass Stewing Kettle / (Preparation of French Potage) / J.F. Peto

Exhibited:

Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, "Penn's Promise: Still Life Painting in Pennsylvania 1795-1930," May-July 1988, no. 93.

Literature:

The Kennedy Quarterly, October 1969, vol. 9, p. 110, no. 88, illustrated (as Wine Bottle and Brass Pot); J. Wilmerding, Important Information Inside: The Art of John F. Peto and the Idea of Still-Life Painting in Nineteenth-Century America, Washington, D.C., 1983, pp. 78-79, fig. 59, illustrated.

Provenance:

Kennedy Galleries, New York; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, April 21 , 1978, lot 7; Russian Tea Room, New York, acquired from the above; Private collection, acquired from the above; Sotheby's, New York, April 8, 2011, lot 27; Acquired by the present owner from the above.